스톰킹아트센터 케냐 출신 조각가 왕게치 무투(WANGECHI MUTU) 특별전(5/21-11/7)
STORM KING ART CENTER TO PRESENT SPECIAL EXHIBITION BY WANGECHI MUTU
Featuring new bronze sculptures and earthworks, Mutu’s indoor and outdoor exhibition will be accompanied by a screening of the artist’s films
On view from May 21 – November 7, 2022
New Windsor, NY, March 15, 2022—Storm King Art Center, New York’s premier museum for modern and contemporary outdoor sculpture, will inaugurate its 2022 season with a special exhibition of outdoor and indoor sculptures by Wangechi Mutu (b. Nairobi, Kenya, 1972) and a new site-specific commission by Brandon Ndife (b. Hammond, Indiana, 1991).
Wangechi Mutu’s Storm King exhibition will foreground her current practice in earth and bronze sculpture and exhibit new works. Mutu’s work engages with the natural world to address themes of women’s rights, human equality, and civil rights, and their inextricable relationships with our ecosystems. For the exhibition, Storm King’s Museum Building will include large-scale works like The Glider, on exhibit for the first time. Using materials straight from the earth of East Africa, Mutu conceptualizes and sculpts forms that suggest new modes of knowledge and understanding for a visionary future. In addition to her earthworks, the indoor portion of Mutu’s exhibition at the Art Center will feature her newest film, My Cave Call, in which the artist embodies and transforms into a mythical figure in the Suswa Caves within Kenya’s Rift Valley.
Extending out into Storm King’s Hudson Valley landscape will be several of Mutu’s new bronze works, including cast-bronze woven baskets holding the coiled bodies of bronze serpents and giant bronze tortoise shells. Installed in the context of the Art Center’s fields, meadows, woods, and ponds, Mutu’s sculptures take on new meanings and resonance, while adding layers of storytelling and presence to the site’s existing history and ecology. Mutu molds her ideas and materials to assert the symbiotic relationship between the wellbeing of both humankind and our planet. For Mutu, there are no hierarchies between living beings, whether they are human, plant, or animal.
To accompany the exhibition, Storm King is also planning in-person public programs with Mutu, including an outdoor screening of her film works. An exhibition catalogue featuring an interview with the artist will also be produced.
About Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu’s (b. Nairobi, Kenya, 1972) work deals with the very idea of human representation; how we perceive and reproduce images of what we think we are, how we view others and create images of what we think of them. In her ongoing conversations with figuration, Mutu’s work looks at value systems that either obscure or elevate our image and reflections. In her collage-paintings, sculptures, films, and performance rituals, Mutu uses ink, soil, ash, bronze, driftwood, horn, pigments, wine, hair; ultimately keeping the figure as the focus, always seeking to find out more about who we are, what we mean to each other, and why we recreate ourselves in Art. Mutu has participated in several major solo exhibitions in institutions worldwide, most recently at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York — The Façade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us — and at Legion of Honor, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco — Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You listening?
*메트뮤지엄 얼굴 바꾼 왕게치 무투, Wangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us
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About Storm King Art Center
Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky. Since 1960, Storm King has been dedicated to stewarding the hills, meadows, and forests of its site and surrounding landscape. Building on the visionary thinking of its founders, Storm King supports artists and some of their most ambitious works.
https://stormking.org
